This disc invites listeners to consider a new perspective on J.S. Bach’s Partita in D minor, by offering it in the context of four new works by distinctive American composers who looked to the past for inspiration. The album features Kevin Puts’ stunning mix of ‘Bach meets Appalachian fiddle’ in Arches, the searching lines and driving power chords of Randall Woolf’s No Axe To Grind, the brilliant and crazed passion of Daniel Ott’s Double Aria, and the brightness, radiance, and energy of Mark O’Connor’s Caprice No. 6.

Tim Fain, violin

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